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DR. SCHILLING IS TOLERANT OF SANDBURG
CARL SANDBURG A FORCE
TO BE RECKONED WITH
But It Is Yet te Be Shown Whether He Has Justified the
Repudiation of the Muses and the Denial of the Graces
IJy FELIX E. SOHELLINO
rrofmner of rfnrflMi T.llrrntnrf I n
T IIAVE tried te read Cnrl Sandburg's
J- new book, "Smolte nud Hteel." with
out predisposition! mid prejudice). I
have tried te forget the Iowa nnd rules
of the nrtii. I linvc put aside prosody
mi inapplicable, rhetoric as superfluous;
grammar and the deft iitiiRen of culti
vated speech n Impertinent, nnd I hepe
that I hftvc nchlcved nn honest detach
ment. Seme of us nre born rebels. We
are net content te walk in the steps of
ether men ; we want our own ways, and
it is our right. Heme of us find in ac
cepted nrt, ns In accepted science,
elinlns of the past; In the accepted
usages of men, chains of the present.
And we threw overboard likewise the
accepted explanations of much In life,
for example, and in religion, lest we
forge chains once mere for the future.
The Intellectual rebel, the rebel In nrt,
is n fascinating iteure wherever we meet
him. Marlowe blaspheming, net high
heaven, as we used te be taught, but
the orthodoxy of his age. which is net
rhe nrtlioilexv of eurs: Iivren Hcendal-
eusly shocking Mrs. Grundy: Wait
Whitman, glorious brenker el images,
nlnutnr. Ii(nmtf lirniir.1 nnil marble
these are some of the refreshing rebels of
literature.
TUB rebel may he a Prometheus nnd,
bring down the fire of heaven for
the geed of pirn nnd net merely upon
his own devoted head ; or the rebel muy
be only a naughty boy who won't wash
his face and go te school. De net
Jump at conclusions, dear reader ; I have
net classified Mr. Sandburg yet, nnd
I may net succeed when I try. I once
knew n small would-be poetical rebel
who showed his insubordination in the
color of his socks nnd the gorgceusnehs
if hi neckties. He has posed new
and dmpescd for a geed many years,
but I still call him a small rebel be
cause, whatever mny J)e the fact, he
eaves with me nn impression of insln
crity, in which, If I wrong him. I nm
.eartlly sorry. One feels of him, ns
the congregation of Laurence Sterne
1m said te have felt, in doubt as te
what he is likely te de next te Mirprlsc.
If net te scandalize, in doubt except that
it will be unclcricnlj his wig whipped
off nnd thrown in your face or n pas
de soul In the uulplt.
OF ONE thing I nm very certain as
te Mr. Sandburg. He Is very much
In earnest, nnd I like him for Unit.
Moreover, there is nothing Weak or
mawkish about him. He is also net out
with n i.hetgun after his renders. His
pieces I am net ready te call then
poems yet have, tee, much the air of
being overheard rather than heard, anil
this is n great thing te be able te say,
even of n poet. New, when a man is
without pose, in earnest nnd nuiuly, you
respect him, even although you mny net
admire his manners. And in using this
word I am snd'v aware that I am in
troducing something trlvinl In the face
of what Cnrlyle used te delight In call
Ing the eternal Verities the capitalized
Verities. Mr. Sandburg Is tee virile te
be insincere; he is se virile, indeed, that
at times he is brutal. He seems one of
these who. seeking for Htrcugth. And it
best typified in a blew between the
eyes; who. looking for truth, discover
it in nakedness awnre that it is naked
ness ; who, searching for nn escape trem
affectation, find sincerity and integrity
only in the conduct and the language of
the slums nnd worse. Fer example,
speaking of the exquisite musical com
poser, Grieg, Mr. Sandburg tells us:
"Grieg being dead, we mny speak of him
and his art. Grieg being dead, we can
talk about whether he wa,s any geed
or net. Grieg being with Ibsen,
lljorusen, Lief Kricsen anil the rest,
Grieg being dead does net care n hell's
hoot what we say. Morning, Spring,
Anitra's Dance, lie dreams them at the
doers of new stars." This is the
"poem" complete except for measured
printing. The concluding thought,
though no original eue, is n tine hunmu
sentiment, But why smash it with
the incongruous brutullty of a "hell's
hoot"? Norway, we ar told at the
moment, is much disturbed ever a bit
of American desecration of this very
music of "I'ecr Gynt" into ragtime. Is
Mr. Sandburg.'.! "hell's hoot" any
better?
IN EVERY work of art, picture, piece
of music or bit of writing there is
obviously the idea and the execution of
it. Seme people think that It is in the
perfect union of these two things that
successful art consists. Mr. Sandburg
is strong In the originality of tlie irenic
and the grotesque. Take "The Alley
Hats," whose Jargen classifies whiskers
as "lilacs, galways, feather dusters,"
and who are appropriately "creaked"
one day at "n necktie party." Or the
Irony of the iden "they (that is, we)
all want te play Hamlet"; the whimsi
cality of the query, "Hew deea a hang
man behave at home?" or the daring
thought of Ged as a crapshoeter: "Ged
is Luck and luck Is Ged ; we nrc nil
bones the High Thrower rolled; some
arc two upets, some double sixes." This
is as grotesque and compelling as the
dance of death itself. At times tliu
irony, if lighter, is none the less ad
mirable, as in "The Sins of Kala
mazoo," which "are nelthcr scarlet nor
Crimson," but "a convict gray, a dish
water drab" ; or the manufactured
wooden gods which answer prayers and
make rain quite "us well as any little
tin god." If we ask ourselves honestly
Tlic enternal mongrel, the tniur.
eTtirbenrlnr, crlng-lntr "respectable"
who upreams "Orucly lllml" when
the "Bit Yellows" five the cue, and
thcin rreets costly fnnea for the ado
ration of the one whom yest-riluy he
execrated und murdered, .Meet the
t'UJt exumlne him then, after Imv.
I nit absorbed the exquisite revelation
of that abomination In the great
lioetle tragedy that has astounded the
Kmllili tpenklnr world
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IJy Odin Gregery
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DAY) Hew maiir of the roenirrJ tribe
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PEACE ON EARTH
GOOD WILL TO DOGS
A Christmas Story by
Eleaner Hallewcll Abbett
Auther of "Old Dad," etc.
Sparkling with youth and gaiety:
full of the. originality and wit
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"MLi'--"
VlKNKRAt. JTi.
It!
tha Ilnlrrrilfr of rrnnfulrnnlit
could these keen, bitter, odd, contorted
IdcMbe better conveyed mere musi
cally, metrically or in n less bald and
direct hiRnncr. the nnfewcr in "no."
Mr. S.indburR'H manner, Milts his mat
ter, even in Its collenulallum, It slang.
Its short unmusical phrase und scera of
the graces.
TTOWEVER, M'r. Sntidburg i's net
without Imncery, most of it re
markably Orlzlr.al. Nnmi nf If rnmnrlffl.
bly finethe river described as "the
upper twist of n written question mark,"
the white cauliflower faces 6t mlnera
wives" nwnitlnr their htnbands. purple
martens "slinging ciphers" and "slid
ing figure eights" in their "sheaths of
satin blue." Hut mere commonly they
arc misshapen into something gro
tesque. A certain wemnn Is "turned
te a memorial of salt looking nt the
lights of n forgotten city"; two levers
pre described as "ehlsel-nals" j the
East shakes a baby tee at tomorrow,"
and en the verge assuredly of inco ince
herence: "There was n late autumn
cricket und two smeuldering mountain
sunsets under the vnlley reads of her
eyes."
there I have
volume is
nut of the
a flflA Aiiilnlntif In
All is Vnnltv. Here we have vivid
imngery: "The woman named Tomor
row," with "a hairpin in her teeth,
doing her hnlr"; the ccder geld-bound
doers of "the greatest cltv that ever
was" nnd "the golden girls" who sing
its greatness. Then the wind nnd the
rain nnd the crews, the rats and the
lizards. It Is notable that much of the
effect of this variation en a theme at
least as old as Solemon Is here pro
duced by what Miss Amy Lewell Is
fend of dwelling en as If there were
anything thnt Is new In the "new
poetry" te wit. as "the return.' here
almost a refrain. Reme of the phrases
almost fall into the regular cadence of
that unhallowed thing, verse. Strange
it is nnd most happy that genuine emo
tion often restores te the rebel nnd the
theorist the utterance which he has re
fused, as the presence of death may
bring back the atheist te Ged. Mr.
Sandburg is te be reckoned with. Thnt
he has Justified the repudiation of the
nine muses nnd the denial of nil the
graces is yet te be shown.
SMOKE AND S1EKL. IJy Cnrl Banubur.
New Yerk: Harcourt. Urace A Howe.
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called it a poem of the
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New Yerk: Longmans. Green a Ce.
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men mai nave developed in tne course et
history,
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Philadelphia: J. C Winsten Ce
An Informing examination of the milk In
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of treasure hunting In the Seuth Sea Island
WANTED' A FOOL Tly Philip Curtlss. New
Yerk: Harper & Bres.
The remnnce that fo'lewed sn actor's nn
swerlng the advertisement of the title
A"ialnB nnd Intriguing cnnneiiuences fol
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New Yerk' O W Putnam's Pens
Desperate adventures, hslrhrradth escapes
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terleus central flg'irn will enthrall the lever
of this tvne of novel,
HIGH LIFE By Harrison Rhodes. New
Yerk- R. M MeBrlde A Ce
A sparkllmr cemedv In which anpesr amid
n Swiss environment n let of exiled klnss
nnd the disturbing presence of an American
widow,
THE TERRIBLF, ISLAND. Bv Beatrice
Orlmhaw, New Yerk- MnptnlUan Ce
Adventure. mvBtery. romance In n story
n measure hunting In the Seuth Sea Islnnds
SPENDTHRIFT TOWN. By Henry Hudsen'.
Jr. Bosten i Hn-irhlnn Mifflin Ce
A novel of New Yerk life
MAJlin CLAIRE'S WORVSHOP Bv Mar
ru rite Audeux New Yerk Thes.Seltser
N'ttr.ly..?. "0,". Rf'.'.r ,.h s"ntlenal sue
cess of "Marie Claire" the author writes a
new nnet about this typical little French
working girl.
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A refreshing and humorous story of a
pair of professional dancers their creed and
centretemns that result from some of their
experiences. r
CHERRY I8IJ3. By Evelvne Clese. Phlla
delphlat O. W. Jacnhs Ce.
The story at a remarkable woman a girl
with a wonderful voice who. happening te
meet a celebrated tehnr In tti Munu ,
cherry bloom time, allows herself te be eri
suaunu iu miry mm. hj vi ner act news
romance and tragedy and, revenge, told In a
Hww wt
ti
H.G.WELLS' MOST
AUDACIOVS STUNT
The Wonder Is That He Did It
at All, Rather Than He
Did It Well or III
In subllme intellectual audacity II. O.
Wells, has overtopped all his literary
contemporaries by writing an outline
of history from the Creation of the
Peace Conference. Ne timid man would
hnvn nttnmtitpil utirli n Htunendeus task
and no broadly educated man who was '
aware that historical experts after civ- ,
Inir vrnt-4 te tlu ntudv had already i
successfully told the story would have
been se rnh as te think that It needed
delmr aenin.
Mr. Wells is neither broadly edu-1
r.ltrit nnr lx In' timid. l'erlniDS the i
one is the natural result of the ether.
i At any rate he has produced a book In I
two volumes with n total of UtOO finely
printed pages which he calls "The Out-
I line of History," with the subtitle,
"llelng a Plain History of Life and t
I Mankind." New for a man te sit down .
te write n history of life nnd mnnklnd I
In eighteen months or two years Mr.
I lenitiT thnu this I
en his task requires a large measure
in . i'ii , . it must be said te
the cicdit of Mr. Wells that he was
awnre of his audacity, for he explains
In his Introduction that he met with 4
"scarcely n single instance of irrlta- I
tien or linpnticnce" en the part of I
"specialists whose demulus he had In- '
raded or trnversed in what must have
scorned te many of them nn cxaspcr
atingly impudent nnd superficial way."
We enn let the Impudence pass, but
the Indictment of superficiality must
Btaud. It is impossible for a man who
has net devoted himself exclusively te t
the subject te be anything but Miper
licial when he tries te write a history I
of the development of mnn nnd of secl- ,
cty from Its earliest beginnings. The '
wonder is net thnt the book is super
ficial but that Mr. Wells has been able
te de it nt all.
The outline of history is a literary
tunt. Mr. Wells has used Gibben's
sought for In vain. Hut then Adams
was net audacious. He mastered a
subject before he presumed te write en
it, ana wncn no wrote ne made n con
trilmtlen te the sum of knewlrdirc. Sir
Wells thinks he has made n contribution
in the theory of progress te establish
wntcli be set out en bis great task. I lie
discerning will regret that Mr. Adams
is net still alive te dismiss with nn
epigram the presumption of the bril
liant Ilritish novelist who has turned
his attention te history.
Xe one can rend far in the book with
out recognizing the Wcllslan touch.
The mnn confessed two or three years
age that he had never written nuything
which was net inspired by n desire te
change the world. This desire is mani
fested in "The Outline of History." It
is reullv n book of propaganda for his
plan of making ever the world into a
human society with the national spirit
extinct nnd with a sort of n glorified
socialism displacing the present sys
tems. The preceding remarks should net
deter nnv one from rendlnc the book.
It is well worth the timi that It will
take. The style is brilliant, rising nt
j jes j0 eloquence
The arrangement
of the material is surprisingly well
thought out when one considers the
shortness of the time In which the man
hed te digest se much. If there arc oc
casional evidences of Indigestion they
nre te be expected under the circum
stances. Hut with all Its faults the
book will serve n useful end. Its pur
pose is te combat parochial thinking
and te brenden the knowledge of this
generation en what has happened in
the past nnd why it happened. The
fiim of tltnnawN nf nernns who will
read it there is no doubt thnt it will
be widely circulated will lay it down
with n better appreciation of the sig-nifiran'-e
of nrci-ent world movements
thnn they had before thev began It.
Specialists in various fields will find
it full of flaws, They will dispute his
i ifcrcnccs nnd sometimes ehnl'cngc the
accuracy of his statements. Hut as the
experts de net all agree nmeng them
selves no one need he disaulctcd by their
disagreement with Mr. Wells.
THE OUTLINE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Being n plain history of lif nnd mnn
klnd By H. O Wells New Yerk' The
Macmlllan Ce n -,0.
Twe Beeks by Mabel Ansley Murphy
Jlttwtretcd with earefullu selected jjerfralfs
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meat striking and Interesting character
istics of each of the fine women she here
describes It is u book both te read
through and te be turned te again and
again for better acquaintance with each
of Its heroines.
American Leaders &:
of
men
he ha W'
made
America great Net enlv bnH nnd iiri
but parents and teachers will here find
In attractUe nnd readable form Just
what one would like te knew about tach
of these great men who hae helped te
make our country what it is today.
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